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Today’s consumers do not have the time or interest to drive from store to store, perusing through hundreds of home décor products to find the perfect light fixture. They want a one-stop virtual shop with unlimited options accessible to them through the click of a mouse. With more than 280,000 products available online and access to hundreds of thousands more products from its vendor base, chances are Bellacor.com has what they’re looking for.

On each job on which Archadeck performs, its clients are seeing something unique in the construction world: a local contractor with national stability. “We offer a national guarantee on top of a local warranty that stands behind each project,” Director of Construction and Drafting Victor Weaver explains. “If the local office is unable to complete the job or perform warranty work for some reason, we have a national entity to step in and complete the necessary work. We have local guidance and perspective, as well as national expertise.”

From building exteriors to staff and amenities, V!VA Retirement Comm­unities believes in making community members feel part of a friendly, thriving community. “One of the things we’re aiming to achieve with our design is to move away from an institutional feel,” says Danny Joseph, director of sales and marketing. “We’re trying to make our designs more community-based and more family- orientated, so our community members feel like they’re truly at home as opposed to living in a hospital.”

Since originating as a small junk and supply store started by two brothers, Friedman’s Home Improvement has evolved into a successful third-generation, family owned and operated home improvement business. With stores in Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Ukiah, Calif., the company has supplied products for DIY homebuilders and contractors in northern California for more than 60 years.

Launching Cornell Homes just a little over three years ago, Greg Lingo’s formula for building homes has them practically flying off the market today. Finding desirable locations in select areas of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey that are within a one-and-a-half-hour radius of Philadelphia, the firm seems to have found the right mix of quality homes in desirable locations that make value-conscious buyers take notice.

Wolfgang Geiger, president of All Bahamas Construction (ABC) Co. Ltd., thinks it is a bit too easy to get a contractor license in the Bahamas. That is what makes it important for a developer or owner to know exactly who and what they are hiring for their construction job.

Window and door products that will last the lifetime of an estate home are the market niche of Tradewood Windows and Doors Inc. These unique solutions are crafted using the latest information technology and manufac­turing equipment to reduce expense through efficiencies and deliver old-world craftsmanship at competitive new-world prices.

When a company has been in business since 1928, it has learned a thing or two. And a company can hardly survive eight decades without gaining a favorable reputation. That is the story of Scherrer Con­struction Co. Inc., based in Burlington, Wis.